I started out with a recurve as a kid. I didn't have enough money to buy a compound. I practiced my butt off at haybales in the yard. Missed 2 bucks that year, one of them twice. Saved my money for the following year and was ready to take on the deer with my PSE pulsar express. I didn't get a shot that fall. But the next fall I did....and as they say the rest is history. I will probably go back to using a recurve on occasion, if I can find the time to get comfortable enough with it again. Even hunting now with a modern compound bow I don't feel there is any comparison with a gun or ease to my bowhunting. I don't shot over 25 yds, and of my last 5 bowkills, the farthest was 16 yds, the rest were under 10.